シカゴの夏はちょうどいい
2017-Oct-03, Tuesday 15:10![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Still plugging away at special projects at work. Still using an excel spreadsheet, as mentioned in my previous post, because there's no system for dealing with projects because everything that needs to be processed goes into a giant pond and there's no way of sorting them. Computers. 
When looking for a topic for today's Japanese class, I found the blog of a Japanese woman married to a German man and living in Chicago, entitled シカゴの夏は短かすぎ ("Summer in Chicago is too short"). There's not actually that much about Chicago as such, but there are articles about restaurants she goes to, quirks of an international marriage, travel, and daily life. I disagree with the blog title, but the articles are a fun grab-bag that's useful for practice.
That also inspired the title of this post, "Summer in Chicago is just right."
I also signed up for the JLPT, 3級. A friend mentioned he thought I could pass 2級 easily, but I'm not as confident.
I'm not really planning on doing anything special in terms of studying. I get plenty of reading practice with playing games, reading friends' statuses on Facebook, reading 世界の中心で、愛を叫ぶ with Aya-sensei, and now following a blog. I get listening practice at Japanese class and listen to some podcasts, and I get vocab and kanji study in every weekday when I use StickyStudy on the L on the way home. I just need to keep up my routine, keep reading stuff that I don't perfectly understand so I can learn something new, and not get discouraged. Easier said than done.
This weekend I took Monday off. I should take some JLPT practice tests so I know where I stand.
When looking for a topic for today's Japanese class, I found the blog of a Japanese woman married to a German man and living in Chicago, entitled シカゴの夏は短かすぎ ("Summer in Chicago is too short"). There's not actually that much about Chicago as such, but there are articles about restaurants she goes to, quirks of an international marriage, travel, and daily life. I disagree with the blog title, but the articles are a fun grab-bag that's useful for practice.
That also inspired the title of this post, "Summer in Chicago is just right."
I also signed up for the JLPT, 3級. A friend mentioned he thought I could pass 2級 easily, but I'm not as confident.
I'm not really planning on doing anything special in terms of studying. I get plenty of reading practice with playing games, reading friends' statuses on Facebook, reading 世界の中心で、愛を叫ぶ with Aya-sensei, and now following a blog. I get listening practice at Japanese class and listen to some podcasts, and I get vocab and kanji study in every weekday when I use StickyStudy on the L on the way home. I just need to keep up my routine, keep reading stuff that I don't perfectly understand so I can learn something new, and not get discouraged. Easier said than done.This weekend I took Monday off. I should take some JLPT practice tests so I know where I stand.
